Happy New Year!!!

          I just wanted to wish you all, whomever and wherever you are, a wonderful, beautiful and safe New Year! May 2012 bring you many blessings, much love and great success (whatever success may be to you).

Cheers!!

~*aquadonia*~

(I do have a couple Updates on the blog, so please click 'Read More' to see them. Thanks! :-))

Something Special For You All...

(also posted on the waterspiral tumblr)

:-)

Such A Little Thing Makes A Big Difference

          With Christmas just about on top of us (Happy Festivus!), I could easily write about my views on the gross commercialism of the holiday and how it destroys the heart of it. But I won't be doing that with this article. Although I do have strong opinions on such things, there are so many people in the blog-o-sphere and around the web that have done so already, many with the same thoughts as myself. I'll leave it to them, whomever they may be, to voice that part for me this year.

          For this week's article, I will be relaying something that happened in my world yesterday and the thought processes it got me going on. It was a reminder to me about not only how important my role is as a mother, but it's also something that can remind us all that, often times, it's those little things that truly matter to those we love and care about.

Grab a cuppa and take a read. :-)

Notable Quotes #1 - Joseph Campbell & Carl Jung

“Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, “This is what I need.” It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment -not discouragement- you will find the strength there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege!! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow. Then, when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures, followed by wreckage, were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. You’ll see this is really true. Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.”


-- Joseph Campbell

This quote had me thinking of the one I use under the title of this blog...

"I am am not what happened to me, I am what I chose to become." -- Carl Jung

How you go about your trials makes all the difference, and how you move on from them even more so. Funny how this is actually what the article that I'm writing for Thursday explores, isn't it? ;-)


(Also: Thanks to The Daily Love, via their daily e-mail today, for the amazing Joseph Campbell quote!)